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Julie Hesmondhalgh is best known for playing Hayley Cropper in Coronation street but has also recently starred a Suzanne in ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Four-part ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office documents one of Britain's greatest miscarriages of justice as sub-postmaster Alan Bates took on a decades-long fight against the Post Office

It's now emerged that hundreds of former post office workers had been mistakenly accused of stealing, with dozens convicted in court and others jailed

Actress Julie Hesmondhalgh - best known for her Hayley Cropper role in Coronation Street - makes a welcome return to ITV in the drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Toby Jones and Julie Hesmondhalgh star in ITV's Mr Bates vs the Post Office - a true story of the British Post Office scandal that saw scores of postmasters wrongly prosecuted